It was important to get him involved again. His past history is well documented, but that is in the past.

I don't think about the past, ... I'm happy I got the opportunity I have right now. And I wanted to make the most of it.

I hope to field my strongest team for these two games because it is vital we win them.

Steve informed me his mother was Irish, which I was unaware of. All of a sudden I started looking at the boy a bit differently, and I have kept an eye on him since.

It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.